Digitalization and Urological Diseases
Severity of Cyberchondria and Level of Health Anxiety in Patients Visiting Outpatient Urology Clinics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22004447 |
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| Authors | Mehmet Serkan Özkent (0000-0002-6613-0671, Konya Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, corresponding author), Muzaffer Tansel Kılınç (0000-0002-1024-3394, Konya Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi), Mustafa Bilal Hamarat (0000-0002-3987-7016, Konya Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi), Burak Yılmaz (0000-0002-7101-363X, Konya Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi), Yunus Emre Göger (0000-0002-4480-9093, Necmettin Erbakan University), Yasemin Özkent (0000-0002-8617-8429, Selçuk University), Mehmet Mesut Pişkin (0000-0002-0528-6699, Necmettin Erbakan University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 28-34 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2152-2715 • E-ISSN: 2152-2723 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1089/cyber.2022.0089 |
| PMID | 36454182 |
| OpenAlex | W4310527698 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
This study aimed to evaluate the cyberchondria levels of patients who applied to the urology outpatient clinic. The second goal of this study was to evaluate the relationship between cyberchondria severity and health anxiety in these patients. The present prospective observational study was conducted at the urology outpatient clinic of two tertiary centers in our city between September and December 2021. Eligible patients were the adult patients (>18 and ≤60 years) who used the Internet for health purposes and had no self-reported psychological or mental disease. The patients were divided into following groups according to their complaints: general urology, uro-oncology, andrology, functional urology, and endourology (stone disease). The level of cyberchondria and health anxiety was evaluated for these patients by using the Short Health Anxiety Inventory (SHAI) and a short-form version of the Cyberchondria Severity Scale (CSS-12). This study enrolled 578 patients (190 female, 388 male). The mean age of patients was 43.4 ± 13.3 years (18–60 years). The mean CSS-12 was 28.1 ± 12.1, and the mean value of SHAI was 18.9 ± 13.6. The patients had andrological symptoms, is uniquely related to higher CSS and health anxiety, and followed by uro-oncological diseases. However, the least relationship was observed in patients with functional urological diseases (analysis of variance [ANOVA], p p
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| Highly cited | No |
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